{"id":263,"date":"2012-05-31T01:46:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T05:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=263"},"modified":"2012-05-31T01:46:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T05:46:08","slug":"wmes-ari-emanuel-goes-after-google-over-piracy-at-allthingsd-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/05\/31\/wmes-ari-emanuel-goes-after-google-over-piracy-at-allthingsd-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"WME\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ari Emanuel Goes After Google Over Piracy At AllThingsD Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to piss a lot of people off,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ari Emanuel told the AllThingsD conference tonight. And in a room of tech execs, the WME boss kept his word. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Where Google decides to play in this piracy issue, plus Verizon, AT&T, is very crucial for our economy and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m concerned they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to wait it out,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Emanuel to told AllThingsD co-founders Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher in front of a packed house. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stop they stealing content I think it is going to be a problem.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Emanuel, who promised not to swear or hit anyone, was very clear to name names and point out where in the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pipes\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he sees the theft of his clients\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and Hollywood\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s content coming from.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We need Northern California to figure out how to keep our intellectual property from being stolen. If Google was in China, and their stuff was being stolen, they would leave China, right?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Emanuel didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t miss the opportunity to chastise Silicon Valley and their industry for allowing the stealing of content and the scuttling of antipiracy legislation. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ask Google, ask Verizon why they haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t come to the table?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Asked in the Q&A what exactly he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like Google to do, Emanuel said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like them to start filtering when people are stealing our product internationally, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s their responsibly.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In a heated exchange with one questioner, Emanuel made his point emphatically, telling the guy to sit down to wide applause. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Stealing is a bad thing,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d bellowed Emanuel to the crowd\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sudden approval.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Inevitably the question of WME\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recent deal<\/a> to bring Silver Lake Partners onboard with a 31% non-controlling minority interest in the company came up. Emanuel said that WME has \u00e2\u20ac\u0153been increasingly interested in tech.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Sitting on the same stage as Apple CEO Tim Cook the day before<\/a>, Emanuel added, that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been buying and investing in startups. When we merged a couple years ago, we kind of shifted the whole focus in terms of where things were going, and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve spent a lot of time up in Silicon Valley, trying to figure it out.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d All that effort \u00e2\u20ac\u0153got Silver Lake interested\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what started them and WME talking.<\/p>\n

Piracy and content might have been the heart of Emanuel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sometimes pugilistic appearance at AllThingsD, but it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the only one. Mossberg and Swisher drew Emanuel out of on what he thought was going right in the entertainment industry. When you think about the entertainment business, you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just think about movies,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the WME co-CEO cautioned the audience, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in the music business with concerts, the author business, we have 230 shows on TV.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d And TV got Emanuel going. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The television businesses\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 economics are better than its ever been,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Emanuel said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think this is the best business in the world and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m betting heavily on it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Asked by Mossberg and Swisher if he was strictly traditional in his approach, Emanuel responded he knew the audiences are there because of the success of YouTube and other new platforms. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m OK with them watching it on Nexflix as long as we figure out the economics and I believe premium content are more valuable than two dogs on a couch.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

The 10th annual AllThingsD conference runs through tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Related:\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong> Aaron Sorkin Says Writing About Steve Jobs Like Writing About Beatles: AllThingsD<\/a><\/p>\n

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